Vermont reported 99 new Covid-19 cases and three new deaths on Wednesday.
As of Wednesday, the health department reports 29 people are hospitalized with the virus, with nine in intensive care.
The seven-day average test positivity rate is 3%.
The state has reported seven deaths from Covid-19 in August, up from two in July. One death was reported Wednesday in the 30-39 age group, and two deaths were reported in the 60-79 age group.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, community transmission is considered “substantial” or “high” in seven of Vermont’s 14 counties: Addison, Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin, Orleans, Rutland and Washington. The agency recommends universal indoor masking, regardless of vaccination status, in those counties.
Two of those counties are in the most severe category, indicating more than 100 cases per 100,000 residents in the last seven days: Chittenden and Orleans.
The state’s vaccine dashboard, also updated Wednesday, shows 85.1% of eligible Vermonters have received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine. The state reports 433,496 Vermonters, or 67.4% of the total population, are fully vaccinated.
Daily updates from the health department do not include demographic data about hospitalizations, but as of Tuesday, no children were hospitalized with Covid-19 in Vermont, according to Health Commissioner Mark Levine. The department does not provide information about the vaccination status of daily new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
Officials said Tuesday that the growth in new cases is expected to slow down and eventually decrease in the coming weeks.
